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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Basic Education (1951) p. 89
- Truth & Lies
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
Howard Zinn1922–2010A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, p. 270.
- Hope
This network of times which approached one another, forked, broke off, or were unaware of one another for centuries, embraces all possibilities of time.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986The Garden of Forking Paths
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“Juan Muraña”, in Brodie’s Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
- Money
He was not of an age, but for all time!
Ben Jonson1572–1637To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (First Folio, 1623), line 43
- Writing
Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.
Denis Diderot1713–1784Dying words of Nicholas Saunderson as portrayed in Lettre sur les aveugles [Letter on the Blind] (1749)
Ask yourself what “problem” you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948The Power of Now (1997)
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. xv
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now — always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965On the Edge of the Primeval Forest (1922), Ch. XI: Conclusion (1956 edition)
- Truth & Lies
Is all our Life, then, but a dream
Seen faintly in the golden gleam
Athwart Time’s dark resistless stream?
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
- Life & Death
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Siddhartha (1922)
Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann1875–1955The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 7
- Emotion
Your true home is in the here and the now. It is not limited by time, space, nationality, or race.
Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022“Returning Home”, Shambhala Sun (March 2006)
We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.
Neil Gaimanborn 1960Signal to Noise (1992)
- Life & Death
The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892Faith’s Checkbook (1888), entry for June 22.
- Life & Death